Acacia spania Pedley, Austrobaileya 1: 140 (1978)
Single-stemmed, glabrous tree to 15 m high. Bark ‘ironbark’-type. Branchlets angular, light brown, scurfy. Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to elliptic, flat, straight or sometimes sub-falcate, 2–4.5 cm long, (6–) 8–18 mm wide, coriaceous, stiff, slightly glaucous, scurfy, with 3–5 main nerves scarcely prominent, the minor nerves c. 10 per mm, longitudinal, very inconspicuous, not anastomosing; gland 1, rudimentary, basal, to 1 mm above pulvinus. Spikes 2.5–4 cm long. Flowers 5-merous; calyx c. 1 mm long, dissected from c. its length to almost to base, slightly hairy at base and slightly brown scurfy at apex; corolla c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous. Pods and seeds unknown.
Known only from two localities near Emerald, Qld, where it occurs as relatively pure stands in shallow red soil surrounded by open eucalypt woodland. Flowers Aug.
This species is probably related to A. umbellata and A. striatifolia but it has deeply lobed calyces and much smaller phyllodes.
Type of accepted name
‘Fairhill’, 56 km NE of Emerald, Qld, Aug. 1973, Daniels 6 ; holo: BRI.
Synonymy
Racosperma spanium (Pedley) Pedley, Austrobaileya 2: 355 (1987). Type: as for accepted name.
Representative collections
Qld: ‘Fairhill’, c. 70 km by road NE of Emerald, N.Hall H 82/2 (NSW); c. 55 km SSE of Yalleroi, N.Hall H 82/16 (NSW).
(NSW)
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